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about the ills of the current generation, no one commit to genuine exchanges / interations anymore, it is a story about writer’s need for direct and genuine human contact and a “person to person” exchange.
This piece is about someone seeing the trends of modern life and feeling out of touch with these trends. Part of this is about people being out of touch with their physical bodies - they are not really living in the moment but rather are living vicariously through their mobile devices:
Desription
Lately, no ones speaking
Conversation, is so deafening
Can you hear it
Don't go near it
These voices are deceiving
Writer also made references to the superficiality of fashion; how we cover ourselves up with trends and commercial products to try and create an identity for ourselves but this attempt to build an identity turns into jealousy and competitiveness:
Fashion is play pretend
Nobody can be friends
You don't see it
But you feel it
This facade is what we live in
In this time and place, people are being influenced by and chained to very rigid pathways of the mechanical city life
There is a sense of triumph in acknowledging how the world is today and her conscious decision not to fall for the easy pleasures of modern life.
Ultimately, writer is searching for a true and genuine experience and has faith that people will break out of it, making genuine exchanges, i.e. talking to each other real etc.
People will soon be free
Coz rivers running deep
Flow with it
Move swiftly
Away from this still illusion
There is hope for the future and a way of life writer subscribes to – we have to revolutionize the current situation and engage in more genuine interactions.
Oh revolution's what we need to face
Or stay quiet let our ages race
River river run run away
Bring the life back into this waste
